It took a slight hunt through the attic until he found the old blanket, and he brushed his hands over it softly, hoping that what was once comforting to his own child would be for hers as well.

No matter what I have done for him in the past nine years, I will always be a man that once walked out on his little boy.

(Haven't seen the movie "Drillbit Taylor", but David Dorfman - who played Sam on Ally - is too cute! Oh and if you can't tell what he's saying at the end: This is not for me, it's for my books! I am not a book!)

Ladies and gentleman, it is official...my son is a dork.

My kid is leaving me tomorrow.